Lychee

Lychee (Litchi chinensis) is a wonderful sweet fruit. The delicious plus sweet taste is suitable to make juice, ice cream and desserts. The fruit was originated from South China but today, it can be found in most countries but the price is quite expensive. Nowadays, there are many lychee products that had formed into cordial. It is too much sugar and causes lychee to less nutritious. It is better to get lychee fruit and make your own juice.

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Fasting and Ramadan

Fasting in Ramadan can improve person’s health. But, if people are not following healthy diet, it can possibly worsen it. Healthy diet should be taken into account to gain full benefits from fasting. Type and quantity of food should be monitored well. Overeating can harm the body and person’s spiritual growth during Ramadan. The diet should be simple and it is not differ too much from non-fasting diet. It should contain all the major food groups include carbohydrate, protein and fat.

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Dates Nutrient Composition

The water content in dates decreases as they are ripened. The average water content of dates are 83.6%, 65.9%, 43% and 24.2% in the ‘Kimri’ stage, ‘Khalal’ stage, ‘Rutab’ stage and ‘Tamr’ stage respectively. 

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An Introduction of Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate contains sugar that can provide primary energy for human being. It consists of monosaccharide, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Monosaccharide is a single component and cannot be broken down into simple sugar, while disaccharides and polysaccharides can be broken down into simple sugar. Carbohydrate can be found mostly in plant. It has many functions including act as storehouse of chemical energy (glucose and glycogen), as part of plants’ structures (cellulose), make up cell walls of fungi and exoskeleton of insects (chitin) and components of nucleic acids. 

A summary of photosynthesis to make carbohydrate

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